About Me
Who is Anna Everywhere?
Hey, I’m Anna!
I’m a Polish-born citizen of the world. Ever since I entered adulthood I embarked on a solo mission to travel the world while building my career & skills through studying and working abroad.
I started this blog over a decade ago to share my experiences with other travel enthusiasts as I was making the life of travel a reality.
This did not stop when I got married, added a cat, or had children. I’ve traveled near and far with the whole family. I’m here to prove that you can be born in a non-English speaking country, suffer from chronic diseases, have children, and still live an adventurous lifestyle wherever in the world you want to be.
One day you’ll find me in a luxury hotel, on another I’ll be horseback riding next to an active volcano, hanging on aerial silks in the woods, or these days also exploring playgrounds around the world with my kids…
Now, I’m a successful digital nomad who lived long-term in 9 countries so far (4 with kids and cat). I want to help YOU how to start traveling.
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Countries Visited
Countries visited with kids
Countries visited with cat
Countries lived in
How I Became a Digital Nomad?
Growing up in Poland in the 90s meant that traveling abroad and far was basically reserved for either a business trips or study programs. I haven’t even been on a plane until I was 16. My family was living off a decent middle class salary, but if you translate it internationally it wasn’t even close to a minimum wage in the US.
Over the years I’ve been up to some crazy things… I’ve been lost in the Amazon jungle. I’ve walked among hundreds of thousands of penguins in South Georgia Island.
I’ve stayed in the craziest overwater bungalow in the Maldives, ate breakfast with giraffees, swam with elephants, but also camped at the tribal kettle camp, and survived a sandstorm on a desert of Niger.
I’ve traveled solo to spots that most of my friends wouldn’t think of going, like Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, Afghanistan or Eritrea. I also took my kids to the active volcano of Vanuatu.
My method of traveling was never very unique or innovative. I simply worked and studied in different countries, while saving up for random trips. Little did I know I was becoming a digital nomad before it became cool. Your situation may be different, but if you really want to travel, you can always find a way to do it and even save money on the side.
Need Some Inspiration In Your Life? Here’s my Storyline:
2007
I graduated high school and worked all summer as a waitress to make money to travel. I took a solo trip to Egypt, which opened my eyes to possibilities of traveling and moving abroad.
2008
After the first year of college at UMK in Poland I spent the summer attending an English school in Miami, which was my first time in the US.
I studied hard, got a scholarship, and graduated college with a degree in History and languages in just 1.5 years.
2009
Using my scholarship and savings, I spent my semester off to travel. Visited Thailand, Tunisia, Middle East and returned to the US to study English again to pass entry exam for the UK.
I spent the next year in London pursuing Master’s degree at UCL and working 6 days a week at a bar to pay my expenses and save money.
2010
Instead of applying for a graduate placement like anyone else, I spent my savings on a plane ticket to volunteer in Africa and abandoned the idea of continuing PhD and abandoned my degree.
Instead, I got a grant to study journalism at Harvard and planned on backpacking South America after. Instead, I fell in love with Mexico, so I completed an internship in Argentina and moved to Mexico…
2011-12
I lived in Mexico for 2 years teaching English and working for a magazine and branding agency. I became completely fluent in Spanish.
However, my psoriasis was getting worse and worse and I knew I will eventually need expensive medicine.
Due to my mom’s illness and then passing, I suddenly had to move back to London at the end of the year with zero savings, due to having to quit my job.
2013
One of the craziest years. Back in London I worked two jobs 7 days a week and couchsurfing to save money. Took quick backpacking trips to Brazil, Fiji and New Zealand in between by learning how to travel hack.
Then, I decided to move to Paris and then Florence to improve my French and learn Italian.
While in Italy, I got an opportunity to move to South Africa for a bit, which I jumped on immediately.
Then, returned to the UK to finally complete my Master’s degree, this time in international law.
2014
After completing the first semester in the UK, I moved to the Netherlands to pursue another degree at the same time. I took an overnight bus from Leiden to Oxford every week for a day to attend classes, while also working for the university.
I also went back to Mexico to research (and lived in a hostel dorm for 2 months) and my thesis was later published.
After graduating I got my dream job that unfortunately turned out to be bust, but as I wanted to stick around in the Netherlands I worked for Booking.com as an editor.
I started this blog to share my travel tips with broader audience, but it blew up overnight (literally!).
2015
I got engaged to someone who had to move back to California, so I moved with him. Unable to work in the US for months we lived in a bad flatshare with no money and I was freelancing for companies abroad and working on my blog. Eventually, the relationship fell apart.
In the meantime, I started making a tiny bit of money off my blog and booked some sponsored stays.
I stayed in the US for a bit, unknowingly at the time also meeting my future husband Matt at the conference, before relocating to Playa del Carmen in Mexico to improve my business in a cheaper location.
2016-17
The website basically became my job and I was making enough to survive, while doing freelancing work on the side.
Thanks to medical tourist in Mexico I was able to control my psoriasis.
I lived in Playa del Carmen happily until Matt and I decided that we need a better base and decided to move to Colorado.
We got married in Las Vegas and I had to put lots of international travels on hold because of the immigration. Since we couldn’t have a wedding… so we got ourselves a Poofy as a wedding gif
2018
I finally got my green card and we moved to LA where we both worked hard on our websites. For the first time in my life I made my first 6-figures.
I got my medicine for psoriasis and just as we thought we were set, I decided we didn’t have enough on our plate and got pregnant with our first baby.
Since Matt got his EU passport and we decided to pack our cat and move to Italy.
2019
We used our European base to travel, while working on improving passive income.
We even managed to embark on an expedition to Antarctica and South Georgia.
Dylan was born in April, but as he had to born in Poland instead of Italy, we started traveling with a baby immediately.
Right before the end of the year we had to return to the US, so we moved to Utah this time and bought our first house.
2020
Right when our businesses were booming and I could split my time traveling solo, with a baby and working the pandemic hit.
In March, not only I almost got stuck in Socotra, because of the pandemic, but also had an ectopic pregnancy 24h after flying back. I was also diagnosed with a third autoimmune disease.
Our income vanished overnight, daycare closed suddenly, and once again I had to reinvent myself.
After seeing market trends I started a toy store, clothing brand, and two other blogs. I was back to working million hours a day and night and took a giant loan without any guarantees, but at the end of the year it all paid off.
2021
Wanting to give our kids more opportunities for the future, we relocated back to Playa del Carmen for a few months for the birth of our second child Holden. As he was born in Mexico, he automatically got citizenship and eventually we all got permanent residency as well.
The work I put in my new business ventures paid off and we were able to fulfill some of my biggest travel dreams like French Polynesia with kids.
We tried some suburban life, even raising chickens, ducks and bunnies for a while, naively thinking we were done with traveling.
2022-23
We sold our house in Utah and relocated to Annecy in France for a few months, before moving to North Carolina.
I finally got my US citizenship.
We took a great amount of trips with the kids, from African safaris, through European escapades, to remote islands in the Pacific. Lots of dreams were fulfilled and I still completed a few solo trips to more off the path destinations.
Present Day
With kids in schools and busy with their activities, we’ve decided to relocate to Europe for a few years to make our life easier and travel more accessible.
At the moment, both Matt and I are always working on pursuing new business ventures and have no idea where we will end up 🙂